BCI

Students can complete up to three consecutive four-month terms, a maximum of twelve months, across disciplines including finance, economics, computer science, engineering, and law. In 2024, 175 co-op students and interns completed 227 work terms at BCI's Victoria, BC office, with public-markets participants attending a dedicated six-day onboarding bootcamp. Three cycles a year gives a student more entry points across a calendar year than a firm that hires once annually, and the option to run consecutive terms builds a longer runway toward the internal route into a full-time role.

In January 2026, BCI was named one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People for the second consecutive year, with the profile citing its co-op-to-rotational-program pipeline reserved for former co-op students and interns. That pipeline ran at real scale in 2024: 175 co-op students and interns completed 227 work terms across the firm. For an applicant weighing a limited number of applications, BCI offers Maple-8-level scale and an unusually well-established co-op-to-permanent track, from a Victoria, BC base rather than the Toronto hub most large Canadian asset managers recruit from.